Casey Anthony And Determinism

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Ethics has a central role in the choices we make or should make and what consequences will follow these choices (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Freedom is the ability to make choices freely; we choose and act as we chose (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Determinism in its simplest form is the position that for every event there exist conditions that could cause no other event (Williams & Arrigo, 2012).
Caylee (Kallie) Anthony was last seen alive on June 16, 2008 at the home of her grandparents as she was leaving with her mother Casey Anthony (Batagila, 2012). Thirty-one days later, Cindy Anthony, Caylee’s grandmother reported to police that Casey stole her vehicle and some money. Cindy would call police again to report Caylee had been missing for
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There were also allegations that Casey’s father, George Anthony had sexually abused her when she was a child. Mr. Anthony denied these allegations during the trial. After Casey found Caylee drowned, Casey had the freedom to report to police that an accident had occurred, but she choose not to instead she used her freedom to compile a false story. If Mr. Anthony did abuse Casey when she was young, this too was a freedom of choice on his part that we could say according to determinism would be the natural outcome of having it brought out in the trial and possibly a determinism usage of why Casey had not reported the accidental drowning of Caylee. Every choice we make has an impact on ourselves and others for our entire lives (Williams & Arrigo, …show more content…
State. (2017). FindLaw. Retrieved October 5, 2017 from: http://caselaw.findlaw. com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1621490.html Battaglia, N. (2012). The Casey Anthony trial and wrongful exonerations: How “Trial by media” cases diminish public confidence in the criminal justice system. Albany Law
Review, 75(3), 1579-1611.
Casey Anthony trial. (2017). Crime Museum, LLC. Retrieved October 4, 2017 from: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/justice-system/casey-anthony-trial/ Pafundi, B. (2010). Public access to criminal discovery records: A look behind the curtain of the criminal justice system. University of Florida journal of law & public policy, 21(2), 27-271.
Williams, C. & Arrigo, B. (2012). Ethics, crime, and criminal justice (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Retrieved from: https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/ mscj/default.aspx?

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